Chrissy Johnson: Shake Where You’re Steady. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

The multitude can write a song if they so desired and in the current age it could cause some buzz, the access to a supply of listeners never greater, never more easy to find a layer of sympathetic appreciation; but at times the truth of the situation is that the song does not come from within, it may come from the heart, but it does not come from the soul, and it is to that effect which marks the difference between a song, and a soundtrack of a life, of a memoir set to music, of pain, glory, bitterness, praise, and melancholic triumph.

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(388 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

The Vendettas: Who’s Who In The Zoo. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Australia’s classic rock history is written in stone, it is an immoveable fact that the country has produced groups that are not only fascinating and vibrant, but are to be seen as the foundation of a society that grasps the notion of diversity as a strength, not as a lip service of appeasement, and in the fires continually serviced by stone keepers and ‘Rocksmiths’ drenched in sweat and powerful musicianship, the serving up The Vendettas as they release their new album, Who’s Who In The Zoo, is yet another layer of proof that the muscle of the genre is still going strong, flourishing, and out to show no mercy to the naysayers and demonstrative pessimists.

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(384 words, 1 image, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

Joe Bonamassa: Breakthrough. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

It is perhaps hard to imagine that the Godfather of 21st century Blues could be anything but an innovator, a creative reformer, a pioneer of the modern exposure to the craft that has seen him inspire not just his audience, but a legion of musicians who have followed in his wake and whom keep the spirit of the genre alive, keep it kicking, and making absolutely sure it never again falls prey to atrophy, to decay and wasting of talent.

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(425 words, 1 image, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Jethro Tull: Still Living In The Past. De-Luxe Box Set Edition Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision 8.5/10

The original album release of Living In The Past always felt kind of out of its own time, a series of stand-alone singles, leftovers, and memories for those who upon reflection were caught up in the band’s fever following two extraordinary pieces of artistic brilliance, the sheer theatre of Aqualung and Thick As A Brick to be able to be introduced to; the first three albums, instead of being seen as a compilation act, became instead a sounding board, a resonating confidant who’s purpose was not only as a reminder, but an exploration that resolutely, confidently asked to investigated and listened to with growing inspiration.

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(500 words, 1 image, estimated 2:00 mins reading time)

Steve Hackett: The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

To reach such an immense, magnificent, anniversary as a golden celebration, one steeped in memory that has a collective following almost chomping at the bit, awaiting it seems interminably for any sign of life from the artist that might sweep the multitude off their feet as the salute to the past is garnered with extra meaning, satisfaction, almost carnival like appreciation for memorial of how dear the memory remains.

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(452 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)

Gypsy’s Kiss: Piece By Piece. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Piece By Piece the picture takes shape and reveals itself in whole; like a jigsaw puzzle where the objective is to find the frame before the detail, we are often confused in life and see the image first before we lay the foundations and the surrounding borders, the pieces making sense but not in the order where they are most effective, where the beauty of the scene laid bare will be at its most enlightening, its most enduring, and palpable.  

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(432 words, 1 image, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Greg Amici: Tragicomic. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Many a New Jersey artist has found fame and fortune by being everything that New York isn’t. It is almost as if the bright lights that shine down on Lady Liberty reflect into the distance and catch the temple and tempting boardwalks so close to the Atlantic edge and seek refuge in the towns of Wildwood, Ocean City, and down into the beautiful scenic drives down to Cape May Court House and the memories of the old lighthouse as it keeps souls safe from harm…and by doing so offer the musician and favoured artists something that their neighbours in New York never have, an experience of a rough and beautiful tragedy buoyed by the bittersweet moving romance .

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(400 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

The Croft: Play Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

Cast: Liza Goddard, Gracie Fellows, Caroline Harker, Gray O’ Brien, Simon Roberts, Russell Layton, Judith Rae, Rheanna Trueman.

Life is an echo of what was once a story, memories, ghosts, remnants of where tales go when they need to be resurrected to make the living think, to give them reason to understand the effects of the past on the present.

To be cut off from civilisation is akin to be forsaken by Time, everything moves at a different pace, the void between reality and what we perceive as apparitions, ghosts, visitations, is such that those echoes reflect our sense of space when there is little or no company to ward off the meaningless and the agony of our mind at work.

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(481 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Ghosts (U.S). Series Four. Television Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Rebecca Wisocky, Devan Chandler Long, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Betsy Sodaro, John Hartman, Tristan D. Lalla, Arthur Holden, Stuart Fink, Nigel Downer, Christian Daoust, Cat Lemieux, Punam Patel, Caroline Aaron, Cody Crain, Kathryn Greenwood, Christian Jadah, Steven Yaffee, Odessa A’zion, Mary Holland, Crystle Lightning, Deniz Akdeniz, Matt Walsh, Neil Crone, Jessie Ennis, Dean Norris.

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(468 words, estimated 1:52 mins reading time)

Whiskey On The Rocks. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Anders Mossling, Artur Svorobovich, Kestutis Stasys Jakstas, Andrius Bialobzeskis, Filip Berg, Mark Noble, Niklas Engdahl, Per Ragnar, Harry Jansson, Per Lasson, Anders Karlsson, Rolf Lydahl, Oskar Vygonovski, Elsa Saisio, Daniel Hansson, Vytautas Kaniusonis, Adam Lundgren, James Studdert, Giedrius Kiela, Albinas Keleris, Philip Hughes, Vladislav, Onischenko, Jekaterina Makarova, Andrew Lowery, Cecilia Forss, Anton Lundqvist, Katrin Sundberg, Andrius Ziurauskas, Annika Nordin, Jörgen Persson.

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(589 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)